SHOUT-OUTS!
Realm9: OOH! How'd you know I like snickers? A couple other pranks you'd find amusing in here too, I hope.
Pat: Thanks for the quote!
torque: That's weird, sad and scary. Just makes for a scary Halloween story, eh?
Rogue77: I'm afraid it was. I was trying to find the most chipper song I could, and that one kept following me around.
HoneyBug17: Wait no longer!
Laureate: I'm afraid not, but it does involve cameras.
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"I wonder what Mr. Logan's gonna say when he figures out about this…"
"As long as you don't tell him, we'll be okay." I said as I stashed my costume into the closet. "Now, we need to put the boy's doors back."
"The doors are in Rahne's room." Kitty said grinning.
"Then let's all get to work!" I ran out of my room.
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Bobby and the boys managed to get into the kitchen in Kitty's absence. There on the counter, lay the mixture for her muffins.
"Alright, mix your ingredients." He grinned as the other boys mixed in toothpaste, Tabasco sauce, and other awful ingredients into the mixture. "It's not as if we can really damage the recipe."
The other guys laughed as they mixed the mixture back to its original color.
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"What the? My DOOR!"
Rahne and I laughed in her room as cries of indignation came all over the institute.
Bobby's door had been returned, but hinged so that it would only open if you pull the door up.
Sam's door opened backwards. It took him a half hour to figure it out.
Ray's door wouldn't open at all. Especially after Jubes and Rahne liberally applied glue to everything.
Kurt's door broke apart if someone bumped it. That's what happens when people chop doors to pieces and fit them back together.
Roberto's door suffered the most. It was put on the ceiling.
"And that's a wrap." Rahne snickered as the scramble for screwdrivers was heard.
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The girls were gone off to do whatever it is girl's do.
Bobby stuck his head into Danny's room. There were no animals that he could see. This room was the hardest to set a prank up in, Danny always had some spies, but it was worth a shot.
Bobby motioned to Kurt, who quickly bamphed up to the light fixtures, unscrewed the lightbulbs, placed in the secret weapon, and bamphed down. He gave Bobby a thumb's up and they ran off.
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I yawned. I'd just been out for five hours with Jamie and Julian and the other girls taking care of Trick-or-treating. I'd made a killing, but keeping an eye on a hyperactive kid mutant was tiring. I walked into my room and noticed the lack of animal psyche. They'd probably gotten nervous that there was an open door, or rather, no door, and moved out. I fumbled at the wall to flick on the lightswitch.
CRACKSNAPSIZZLE*BOOOOOOOM*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The light fixture exploded in a huge display of sparks and loud booming noises. A smell of burning metal was all over the room. I yelled but it was drowned out by the explosion of the wiring in the walls, and I ran from my room.
There was a thundering of footsteps and Mr. Logan ran up beside me.
"What's going on!? Doolitle, you okay?!"
"Y-y-yeah…" I stammered, more than a little deaf. There were spots all over my vision and I was having difficulty clearing my vision. "I think my room just blew up, I can't be sure though…"
BOOOM!!!!
Somewhere done the hall Jubes flew out of her room screaming. After three more consecutive blasts out ran Rahne, Tabby, and Kitty. But their rooms didn't blow up. They just had a nice show of sparks.
Mr. Logan checked my room and left when he said nothing was on fire. My vision came back and I looked into my room. An incredibly interesting design of charred wall was cut across my room. It actually made little spirals on the wall.
"Cool…"
"Not cool. Look at this!" Jubes waved a piece of brillo pad (the metal washer pads that one uses to scrub grease and grime that just won't move with a regular cloth) in front of my nose.
"Well…gotta admit, that's pretty inventive. I didn't think Bobby was capable of science." Tabby remarked.
"This is probably payback for the doors." Rahne said glumly. There were still sparks going off in her room.
"Well, we're just going to have to get the big one ready, hunh?"
"I'll get the cameras."
"I'll get the rope."
"You'd better get into your costume."
"On it." I said as I disappeared into the darkness of my room.
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"I didn't think it would knacker the light switches." Roberto commented.
"Knacker?"
"Mess up." He explained to Sam. They were watching Bobby talk to Jubes, who was flirting with him. And he was taking it hook, line, and sinker.
"I'll see you there!" She giggled.
"Bye!" He waved, then came back over to them. "They want us to be on the grounds at midnight to decide who's the best prankster."
"Don't you think they might try something?" Ray asked. Bobby shook his head.
"Naw."
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All five boys stood beside the fountain, waiting for the girls.
"We've been waiting for ten minutes! Where are they?"
"Roberto, we've been waiting for five minutes. If they were going to try something, they would have done it by now."
"HIII HOOO SIIIIILLLLVVERRRRRRR! AAAWWAAAAAAAAYY!"
The boys gaped as Danny, riding on a brown horse (which incidentally, she had borrowed from the kiddie Halloween carnival in town), came flying around the side of the Institute dressed like the Lone Ranger, complete with mask. And a rope lasso.
"SCATTER!" Roberto ran away. The other guys followed suit.
Roberto, without the sunlight to fuel his power, was first to get caught. Danny lassoed him and yanked him to the ground, where he was set upon by Jubes and Rahne and tied up.
Bobby, try as he may, was the next to meet that fate and had his foot caught. He tumbled to the ground and Tabby and Kitty nabbed him while Danny set off after Sam.
Sam was difficult to catch. Or he would have been, if he hadn't ran into the Institute wall because he was watching Danny instead of where he was going. Kitty and Jubes tied him up and dragged him to the other two.
Kurt, with his teleporting abilities, was the most difficult, but Danny called on the help of her animal friends to harass him until she managed to catch him.
Ray had booked it around the mansion, with Danny right behind.
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"Well what's this? A villain?" I said in a mock serious hero voice. "You should know," I began to swing the lasso (I had five made especially for the occasion) "That crime doesn't pay. HEE-YAAW!"
He took off as fast as he could but humans are no matches for horses. I galloped after him a few yard and caught him in the rope. I jumped down even before he fell and tied him up calf style.
"Under ten seconds! The crowd goes wild!"
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If pictures say a thousand words they must certainly said that we won that match. We must have taken over three rolls of pictures about the boy's predicament. The girls sat in the rec room, myself still in my costume.
"So what did we bet the boys for?"
"Respect, I guess." I shrugged.
"They should do our chores."
"Bobby is already doing your chores, Jubes."
"Oooh, burn."
"Here we are!" Bobby and the other guys, having escaped the bonds of defeat in a matter of speaking, came in with a whole platter of muffins.
"Specialty of the house." Kurt said.
I picked up a muffin. "A last ditch prank?" I asked.
"We didn't make those."
I bit into it.
"Weird. It's good, but it tastes minty."
"Really?" Rahne grabbed one and began chowing down. The boys jaws dropped. We stopped and stared at them.
"Those were Kitty's muffins….we put Tabasco sauce and toothpaste in them…" Roberto said breathlessly.
I gave them a glare. It had been a prank. But then again…
"Kitty…Why don't you let these guys cook with you? I mean…" I gave a malicious smile. "They did make special mint muffins, you guys should be together to make LOTS more."
"Like, what a great idea!" Kitty said happily, totally missing the fact that I had been pointedly mocking her cooking skills.
The boys screamed in horror.
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MUWHAHAHA! That's it for the War on Halloween! I decided to put it up a day early because updating will not be possible for me tomorrow.
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And a greeting from my OCs and muses, may you all have a HAPPY HALLOWEEN!